I look at the boys raised behind barbed wire, growing harder, angrier, more dangerous with every year. I feel the weight of it as I walk: every dusty tent could be incubating another Paris, another Manchester.
The war against ISIS was never truly over. Its ideology thrives still in these camps. Its families are ready, dreaming of resurrection.
And the Kurds – under-funded, under-armed and under pressure from old enemies – are all that stands between us and an ISIS resurgence.
Unless the world wakes up, the Caliphate will rise again. Its armies are growing here in the dust, waiting for their moment.
His voice is gentle, his eyes calm, his smile polite; he looks harmless. But this man is not ordinary. He was once in ISIS, the world's most savage terror group.
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